Gallatin at a Glance BA PROFILES Who we are

Founded in 1972, NYU Gallatin is a small, interdisciplinary college within . Its BA Program in Individualized Study challenges students to develop an integrated program of study. Te School emphasizes excellent teaching, intensive advising and mentoring, and a combination of program fexibility and academic rigor.

Gallatin faculty represent disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, drama, art, design, architecture, law, science, business, creative writing, environmental studies and more. Students at Gallatin pursue their interests in a variety of ways by: · taking courses at Gallatin and the other schools of NYU · studying abroad through NYU’s Global Network · designing tutorials and independent studies · exploring a wide variety of internships and other forms of gaining knowledge through practice.

What we do

A key to Gallatin’s individualized approach is its faculty advisers. Advisers work directly with students to ensure that their academic programs have depth, breadth, and coherence and that they are consistent with students’ academic and professional goals.

In our Interdisciplinary Seminars, students study the world’s intellectual traditions in small, discussion-based seminars. Our Writing Program ofers courses in creative writing, poetry, journalism, comedy writing, and expository writing. Gallatin’s Interdisciplinary Arts Program is based on the artist-scholar model and combines academic and creative work in the arts.

Located in the heart of the NYU campus in historic Greenwich Village, Gallatin creates a strong sense of community and fosters lasting relationships among professors, advisers, and classmates. At the same time, Gallatin students have access to the virtually unlimited resources of New York City. Degree Requirements

In their frst year, Gallatin students are required to take three Gallatin courses: an interdisciplinary seminar and two writing courses. Tey build skills in research, writing, and critical thinking that help them work with complex interdisciplinary materials and approaches to study.

Students must fulfll liberal arts requirements that include courses in the humanities and social sciences, in pre-modern and early modern periods, and a science course. Many Gallatin Interdisciplinary Seminars cover a wide range of topics and areas of the world and allow students to meet these requirements, as can courses in the other Schools of NYU.

In their second year at Gallatin, students complete the Intellectual Autobiography and Plan or Concentration (IAPC). Te IAPC details steps the student will take toward defning a concentration. Gallatin students work closely with faculty advisers to ensure that they are building a coherent concentration. Te concentration is a program of study organized around a theme, problem, activity, period of history, area of the world, or central idea.

Toward the end of their third year or in their fourth year, Gallatin students prepare their rationale, a paper that defnes the focus of their concentration and sets the agenda for a fnal oral examination called the colloquium. Te colloquium is an intellectual conversation among four people—the student, the student’s primary faculty adviser, and two other faculty members—that draws on a selection of texts representing several academic disciplines and historical periods, and touches on topics both ancient and modern.

Te following pages present academic profles that exemplify how some students have organized their courses of study and found success at Gallatin and in the academic and professional worlds. JULIE-ANN HUTCHINSON, BA ’15

CONCENTRATION: Ethics, Public Policy, and International Development

COLLOQUIUM: Civil Society and Economic Development

Julie-Ann chose the Gallatin School to pursue foreign direct investments coming into the a concentration in ethics, public policy, and country were fnanced by the Chinese government. international development. Gallatin aforded As a direct consequence of her frst internship, her the opportunity to build a core foundation Julie-Ann studied in China to learn more about at NYU’s College of Arts and Science and the its relationships in the global community. In the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public spring of 2013, she served as a Gilman Scholar and Service, fusing her varied interests under Banco Santander Scholar at NYU in Shanghai. Gallatin’s interdisciplinary umbrella. In China, Julie-Ann served as a Reach the World Travel Correspondent, a post that allowed her to Te summer after her freshman year, exchange information with a class of students Julie-Ann served as an intern in the Ofce of in NYC about her study abroad experience. the Prime Minister in Kingston, Jamaica. Tere, Additionally, she interned with the Shanghai she developed a research report on Michael branch of the Global Health and Education Porter’s theory of competitive advantage and Foundation. She was awarded a Gallatin Dean’s constructed a master matrix of the government’s Award for Summer Research to explore the ways policy commitments in order to look at ethical in which US nongovernmental organizations governance. She observed that many of the can contribute to Chinese civil society.

4 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES Based on her research and internship Te Social Contract: Early Modern European Political Teory experience in China, Julie-Ann developed Postcolonial African Cities Kinship Community: Ancient Texts and Modern Teories the working paper “Emergent China and US- China Civil Society Tensions.” In the fall of INDEPENDENT STUDY 2013, Julie-Ann interned with the Lehigh Editing the Literacy Review Valley Economic Development Corporation, “Others” as Ourselves where she researched regional economic development and drafted a report entitled INTERNSHIPS Global Health and Education Organization in Shanghai “Sustainable Economic Development: Deploying High School for Dual Language and Asian Studies the Lehigh Valley’s Resources for Growth and

Prosperity.” She interned in Washington, NYU SHANGHAI DC, at the US Department of Commerce’s Elementary Chinese Economic Development Administration. Topics in Law and Society: Law, Culture, and Politics in China Political Economy of East Asia At Gallatin, Julie-Ann pursued a BA-MPA track in partnership with the Wagner Graduate STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT School of Public Service. In 2015, she deferred Financial Management for Public, Nonproft, and Health her enrollment at Wagner to join Accenture Organizations Management Consulting’s Health and Public Strategic Management Service Division. Performance Measurement and Management for Public, Nonproft, and Health Organizations International Economic Development: Government Markets Law for the Education Policymaker JULIE-ANN’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES AND Stringed Instruments — Private Lessons for Non-Majors INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS: WAGNER SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Institutions, Governance, and International Development Calculus I Introduction to Managing Public Service Organizations Economic Principles I Politics/Public Policy Elementary Chinese II Statistical Methods Intermediate Microeconomics I Trends and Issues in National Policymaking Intermediate Microeconomics II Political Teory

GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY Boundaries and Transgressions Identity and Cultural Construction of Race Utopia: Te Logic and Ethics of Imagining New Worlds Consuming the Caribbean

5 EM WATSON, BA ’16

CONCENTRATION: Space and Social Meaning: Photography, Performance, and Design

COLLOQUIUM: [Images of] Bodies in Space

An artist-scholar from eastern Long Island, Social Change” and “Te Social Construction of Em was drawn to Gallatin’s interdisciplinary Reality,” as well as an internship at the Center experience because she wanted to study for Artistic Activism, made Em think about the photography, flm, dance, and theater. Tough role of the arts in social change. In 2015, she was her particular focus is on post-1960 experimental awarded a Dean’s Award for Summer Research dance and theater performance, she is also Grant in support of her photography travel project interested in body-mind awareness, architecture, “#OpenSkyOpenRoad.” and digital media. A dancer and choreographer, Em performed and created original works A photojournalism internship at Jacob’s Pillow for Gallatin’s student-run club, the Dancers/ Dance Festival brought her interest in dance and um Choreographers Alliance. photography together and allowed her to join the festival’s marketing team. Other internship As she developed her colloquium, [Images opportunities with American Eagle Design Studio of] Bodies in Space, she considered the concept and in the photography studio of Whitney Browne from both a material and theoretical standpoint. gave Em the chance to explore her academic Te courses “Nonviolence in Movements for interests in professional settings. Outside of

6 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES Gallatin, she works as a freelance photographer INTERNSHIPS and performs with dance companies around New American Eagle Design Studio Center for Artistic Activism York City. Em’s photography has been published in Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Te Boston Globe, American Teatre magazine, and on Whitney Browne Photography the cover of Ballet Review. STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT African Dance EM’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES AND Introduction to Design I INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS: Analysis of Dance Technique and Performance Beginning Ballet COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Introduction to Design II Intensive Elementary French Introduction to Digital Photography

GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS “Woman” and the Political Downtown Teatre Achilles’ Shield: Mapping the Ancient Cosmos Film: A Transformative Process, A Vision Beyond Technology Architecture and Urban Design Lab II Te Language of Film Art: Te Afect of Efect Awareness Techniques for Performers Beyond Picture Perfect: Personal Choice in a Digital World Everyday Dance: Creating a Practice Making Dance: Space, Place, and Technology Narratives of African Civilizations Nonviolence in Movements for Social Change Post-Modern Dance: Contemporary Experimental Choreography Reality Revisited Scenic Design in the Performing Arts: Teatre, Dance, Film, and Television Te Art of Play Te Digital Commons Te Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Philosophy of Religion Te Social Construction of Reality Em with Zanele Muholi, South African Te World According to Opera photographer and activist. Em viewed Utopia: Te Logic and Ethics of Imagining New Worlds Zanele’s work on a Dean’s Scholars trip to Johannesburg.

7 ROBERT CLINTON, BA ’16

CONCENTRATION: The Sociology and Politics of Urban Agriculture

MINOR: Sustainable Urban Environments

COLLOQUIUM: Green Cities: An Exploration of Urban Sustainability 2016 Marshall Scholar

A self-described “farmer-scholar” from the San garden on campus and take home the food the class Francisco Bay Area, Robert had several interests grew in Manhattan. when he entered Gallatin but was unsure of what he wanted to study. After taking classes in culture, For the summer of 2015, Robert was awarded politics, and infrastructure, he discovered his a Gallatin Global Fellowship in Urban Practice passion for understanding the ways in which and a Dean’s Award for Summer Research. He cities relate to their food from both a policy and traveled to Berlin to study the relationship between social perspective. environmental identity and religion, and to Athens, Naples, and Cairo to compare the food traditions in Over time, his concentration has grown these cities to those in ethnic enclaves in New York to ofer a broad consideration of the urban City. His goal is to understand how city residents environment. His time at NYU Accra, NYU Berlin, who do not have access to healthy food can provide and in the Steinhardt course “Introduction to for themselves within the constraints of an Urban Agriculture” helped him learn how best to environment dominated by concrete and steel and incorporate green space into urban areas, the latter how to incorporate sustainability into the identities in a practical manner by allowing him to farm in a of all city dwellers.

8 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES In 2016, Robert will attend University NYU ACCRA College London as a Marshall Scholar, one of Global Connections: Accra Global Orientations: History, People, and Cultures of Ghana thirty-two American students so named. In History of Slavery: Te Atlantic Slave Trade the UK, he will pursue a Master of Science in Sex, Gender, and Language Sustainable Urbanism and Master of Research in Society, Culture, and Modernization in Ghana Interdisciplinary Urban Design from Te Bartlett, University College London’s Faculty of the Built SILVER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK Environment. Service Learning and Food Insecurity

STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Argumentation and Debate ROBERT’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES AND Interviewing Strategies INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS: Introduction to Urban Agriculture Piano for Non-Music Majors COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Public Speaking Cities, Communities, and Urban Life Drugs and Kids TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Te American Ghetto History and Design of Urban Parks Race and Ethnicity History of New York’s Urban Infrastructure Spanish for Beginners I Introduction to Urban Policy Spanish for Beginners II Natural Environmental Catastrophes and Cities

GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY TUTORIAL African American History and Memory Gallatin Global Fellowship in Urban Practice Research Seminar Memory and the City Migration and American Culture Narratives of African Civilizations Pollution and Policy Te Southern Table: Place, Politics, Memory, and Mythology in the Foods of the American South Te Idea of America: What Does It Mean? Te Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Te Politics of Food (Dis)Placing Urban Histories Te Public Conversation on the Urban Environment

Robert exploring Ghana through NYU Accra

9 IAN KESSLER, BA ’11

CONCENTRATION: Middle Eastern Studies

COLLOQUIUM: Memory Politics: A Confict of Histories

Ian entered college interested in science and which focused both on Modern Standard Arabic math but quickly discovered his passion for and Egyptian colloquial Arabic. Upon his return, the Middle East. At Gallatin, he explored the he founded NADI, NYU’s Middle Eastern Studies relationship of religion and politics in the Muslim Society, which endeavors to create a robust and world and the role of the Qur’an in social and cohesive intellectual community for students political movements, among other issues. His of the Middle East through extracurricular course of study ranged from the theoretical programming and an annual journal. Ian ran religious level of Qur’anic exegesis to the practical the SHARP Lecture series in his senior year. Te political level of the modern Arab state. At mission of the series was to bring to the NYU Gallatin, he focused on the history of the modern student body a variety of speakers with a wide Middle East. spectrum of views on topics including science, history, arts, religion, and philosophy, as well as To deepen his knowledge of Arabic language economics and politics. Te series won the 2009 and culture, Ian attended a Middlebury College and 2010 President’s Service Awards. Speakers study abroad program in Alexandria, Egypt, included diplomats, political dissidents, and other industry notables.

10 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES Ian graduated magna cum laude with a JD WAGNER SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE from Harvard Law School. He works as an associate US and Middle East at the global management consulting frm NON-NYU STUDY ABROAD McKinsey & Company. Alexandria University Egypt

TUTORIAL Contemporary Monotheisms IAN’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES AND INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS:

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Advanced Hebrew: Israeli Communications Media Algebra and Calculus Arabic Calculus I Central Problems in Philosophy, Religion, and Politics in the Muslim World Chemistry History of Israeli Foreign Policy Nationalism and Ethnic Confict Palestine and the Politics of History Te Qu’ran and Its Interpretation

GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY Genetic Enhancement Modernity and Identity: Te Arabic Novel Secular Politics and Its Discontents Shakespeare’s Mediterranean Societies and Cultures of the Middle East Te Faith Between Us Te Lure of Beauty

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Advanced Arabic Contemporary Literary and Media Arabic I History of Yishuv: 1948 and War of the Historians

11 MALAIKA NERI, BA ’12

CONCENTRATION: Globalization and Economic Development

COLLOQUIUM: Socially Responsible Investment: An Alternative to Traditional Development Programs

Malaika came to Gallatin knowing that she As a sophomore, she was awarded a wanted to study economics, but she was TinkSwiss scholarship by the Swiss government, interested in more than what was ofered by through which she researched the role of the a traditional economics curriculum. Gallatin Swiss economy in the fnancial crisis. Her role provided the freedom to study economics as Gallatin’s representative senator at the NYU alongside politics, philosophy, and human rights. Senate deepened her interest in problem solving and policy, informing her specialization in Malaika’s interest in human rights grew International Policy and Management at the out of her Gallatin seminars, which explored Wagner School. the link between human rights and economic development. Courses in the College of Arts and Malaika is a recipient of the prestigious Science rounded out her theoretical background, Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights, and she was admitted to the inaugural class of which enabled her to intern at a microfnance the BA-MPA Program in Public and Nonproft organization in Madagascar to study how Management—a dual degree between Gallatin microfnance can be used to fulfll social and and the Wagner School. economic rights. As a senior, she was awarded

12 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES a grant from the Horn Family Environmental STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, Studies Resource Fund, through which she studied AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Electronic Music Performance the confict between economic development Private Piano projects and environmental conservation goals Vocal Training Group for Non-Majors in Madagascar. Her colloquium centered on investment in socially responsible businesses as STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS an alternative to traditional aid-funded Global Perspectives on Enterprise Systems development projects. TUTORIAL World Economic Development Malaika is a global project manager at the

Forest Stewardship Council in Bonn, Germany . WAGNER SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE Financial Management of Public and Nonproft Organizations Introduction to Public Policy Managing Public Service Organizations MALAIKA’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES Performance Measurement and Management for Public AND INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS: Nonproft and Health Care Organizations Statistical Methods COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Strategic Management Bilingualism Calculus I Comparative Politics Economic Principles I (Macroeconomics) Economic Principles II (Microeconomics) Intermediate Macroeconomics International Politics Introduction to Psychology Political Teory Poverty and Income Distribution Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences Malaika at one of the branches of the microfinance organization she GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY worked with during her Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights scholarship in Madagascar Between Rights and Justice in Latin America Black Intellectual Tought in the Atlantic World Globalization Imagining Cities Lefebvre and Urban Marxism Socratic Irony and Plato’s Narrators Te City and the Grassroots Te Experience of History

13 JULIAN MITTON, BA ’09

CONCENTRATION: International Development

COLLOQUIUM: (Re)Imagining the State in International Development

Julian’s interest in international development Julian’s interest in the intersection of began in high school, when he interned with medicine, development, and public policy also the United Nations’ Department of Economics led him to complete a premedical curriculum. and Social Afairs. Responsible for coordinating In addition, he took courses in economics, relations with NGOs, he focused on poverty politics, area studies, political philosophy, reduction and global health. At Gallatin, Julian human rights, the sciences, and public health as continued his UN internship, conducting well as graduate coursework in NYU Wagner’s research on topics related to the empowerment School of Public Service. of traditionally marginalized groups as agents in the growing international development Having graduated from medical school agenda. During this period, he traveled with at Stony Brook University, Julian is currently UN agencies to Portugal, China, and Pakistan, doing an internal medicine residency at the among other places. Massachusetts General Hospital. Te program is in global primary care internal medicine and includes an MPH from Harvard and work as a physician researcher abroad.

14 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES JULIAN’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES AND INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS:

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Africa since 1940 Approaches to American Studies Biology Calculus I Chemistry Civil Liberties Economic Principles European and World Diplomacy, 1900–1945 International Politics Physics Sociology

GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY (Re)Imagining Latin America Authority, Modernity, and Democracy Imagining Cities Law and Order Making Peace Poetry, Prophecy, and Politics Primary Texts: Plato’s Republic Te Qur’an Te Urban Muse

INDEPENDENT STUDY HIV/AIDS and Health Policy Race and Violence in America

STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Global Public Health

WAGNER SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE Health and Medical Care Human Rights, Democracy, and Transitional Justice Politics of International Development Te Politics of New York

15 SAMUEL GALISON, BA ’12

CONCENTRATION: Affective Engineering

COLLOQUIUM: Natural and Artifcial Empathy

Sam’s interests include design, fne art, robotics, show and for various classes he was taking in the circus, theater, philosophy, and language. His Tisch School’s Interactive Telecommunications concentration explored a way of thinking that Program. uses scientifc research and philosophy as the basis for creating art and design. He concentrated Sam’s colloquium focused on the aesthetic primarily on research and writing about our philosophy of interactivity in art and experiential emotional or “afective” interaction with other aesthetics as they coincide with the idea of humans, machines, and the external world. empathy. He also looked at empathy from an artistic/design perspective, doing research Sam directed, designed, and produced Te into how people create artifcial empathy in Gospel According to Jeremy, written by Katie Henry, art, robotics, computer science, and design. He with the Gallatin Teatre Troupe. graduated cum laude and was awarded the Leo Bronstein Homage Award for “outstanding In his senior year, he was granted a solo interdisciplinary achievement in the arts.” show in the Gallatin Galleries. Te show, Up Close and Mechanical, featured work from his time at Sam is a freelance graphic and web designer NYU, including new work created jointly for the and co-founder of Void LLC, a design frm. His

16 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES public sculpture installation, the Bellfower Project, INDEPENDENT STUDY is a solar-powered kinetic fower sculpture that Mechanisms and Motion plays music autonomously. It was installed in the NYU BERLIN courtyard of NYU’s Carlyle Court with generous Advanced German I: Composition and Conversation support and funding from NYU’s Green Grant Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud program in 2013. Projects in Drawing Topics in German Cinema Sam is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree in Digital + Media at the Rhode Island School STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT of Design. Computer Music Synthesis: Fundamental Techniques Environmental Art Activism Introduction to Sculpture Projects in Printmaking SAMUEL’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES AND INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS: TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS Advanced Animation Studio COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Comic Relief Algebra and Calculus Constructing Generative Systems Ancient Drama and Its Infuences Introduction to Physical Computing History of French Cinema Sustainable Energy Physics I Time Sound and Music TUTORIAL GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY Topics in Aesthetics Advanced Contemporary Musicianship Aesthetics on Trial Good Design: Habitation Humans, Machines, and Aesthetics Politics and Rhetoric Psychoanalysis and the Visual Science and Religion Te Music of Poetry and the Poetry of Music Te Seen and the Unseen in Science Te Self and the Call of the Other Te Surreal Ting Visual Arts in Teory to Practice Sam creating the Bellflower Project, a kinetic musical sculpture, now installed at NYU

17 ZOE YOUNG, BA ’11

CONCENTRATION: Creative Writing, Renaissance Literature, and Jazz Music

COLLOQUIUM: Reading and Writing the Renaissance

Upon entering college, Zoe thought her interests Zoe’s full-length play, Te Boxer and the Boy, were too disparate to ft into one established was produced in the Gallatin Summer Teater major. But at Gallatin, she found she could study Workshop and was directed by Nicole A. Watson immunology, creative writing, and jazz. Gallatin (MA ’08) with a professional cast. Tis honor ofered her the fexibility she desired. Zoe studied allowed her time with professional mentorship to the Italian Renaissance under Bella Mirabella at rewrite the play. She also completed a full-length a Gallatin summer intensive in Florence before novel for her senior project. her sophomore year. Te course cemented her fascination with the period and opened her eyes to Zoe currently resides in San Francisco, where the world of Renaissance drama. During her year she writes for two theater collectives, Playground abroad, through a direct exchange with Trinity at Berkeley Rep and AMIOS in San Francisco. She is College in Dublin, Zoe became interested in Celtic pursuing an MFA in creative writing at California music and James Joyce. College of the Arts.

18 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES ZOE’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES NYU FLORENCE AND INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS: Glorious Rebirth: Art and Culture of the Italian Renaissance

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE PRIVATE LESSON Advanced Poetry Workshop Guitar British Literature I Central Problems in Philosophy STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, Introduction to Celtic Music AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Medieval and Renaissance Music NYU Jazz Ensemble Shakespeare Survey II WAGNER SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY Health and Society Advanced Contemporary Musicianship Advanced Fiction Writing Advanced Shakespeare Scene Study: Te Histories Crafting Personal Essays and Fiction His Advice to Players: Shakespeare in Performance Imagining Cities Literary and Cultural Teory Novel Freedoms Playing Jazz Rudiments of Contemporary Musicianship Te Artist in Context Te Seen and the Unseen in Science Teorizing Politics: Machiavelli, Marx, and Foucault

INDEPENDENT STUDY Bohemia the Novel Bohemian Novelty

INTERNSHIP Harry N. Abrams: Amulet Books for Young Readers

NYU EXCHANGE WITH UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN – TRINITY COLLEGE Contemporary Irish Teatre in Context John Donne: Life and Poetry Playwriting Ulysses in Context Virgil’s Aeneid

19 REYNALDO VARGAS, BA ’14

CONCENTRATION: Power and Pedagogy

MINOR: Game Design

COLLOQUIUM: Power and Pedagogy

Reynaldo is a native New Yorker who spent a year he created while an undergraduate, was a fnalist of high school in the Dominican Republic. He at IndieCade, an international showcase for began his program at Gallatin by taking courses independent game development. SlashDash, a in politics and philosophy, an expression of his local multiplayer game he worked on, won a 2013 strong interest in political science. He was always IndieCade Audience Choice Award. interested in games and was delighted to learn that NYU ofered courses in game design at the Reynaldo currently manages production NYU Game Center. Reynaldo’s academic focus has and logistics for volunteers for IndieCade allowed him to compare games and politics as events. He is also an educator, teaching game systems. His concentration, Power and Pedagogy, design and development to children at Long considered the study of knowledge-power Island University’s Brooklyn Campus. As an MFA dynamics through failure. candidate for game design at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, he is honing his game development Reynaldo has created games that have been skills. Reynaldo’s MFA thesis is a continuation of shown around the world as exemplary student his work at Gallatin, a narrative game about the work from the NYU Game Center. Staccato, a power dynamics of race and of being a minority tactical, physical sport for two teams of two that in America.

20 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES REYNALDO’SPROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS AND INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS: Advanced Game Design Advanced Topics in Game Studies COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Game Development: Modding Computers in Principle and Practice Game Development: Project Studio Introduction to Computers and Programming Games 101 Introduction to Psychology Introduction to Game Design Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud Musical Teatre Political Philosophy Tinking About Games Socialist Teory

GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY Globalization: Promises and Discontents Labor and the Global Market: Literature, Film, and History Latinos and the Politics of Race Technology, Art, and Public Space Te Global Citizen Te Novel and Its Uses Te US Empire and the Americas Te Vietnam War Visual Texts War and Peace Reynaldo working on a new card game prototype at the NYU Game Center Open Library What Is Critique?

STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Introduction to Digital Media Latino Me New Media Research Studio US-Latin Media and Identity Vocal Training for Non-Majors War as Media

21 ZACHARY FINE, BA ’15

CONCENTRATION: Art History and Philosophy

COLLOQUIUM: Aesthetics, Technology, and Politics 2016 Rhodes Scholar

With equal interest in art history and the politics For two years, Zach served as the editor for Ink and theory that inform an understanding of and Image, the undergraduate research journal of art, New Orleans native Zach credits Gallatin the Department of Art History. From 2014-2015, he with exposing him to essential texts in these was one of two BA students selected as a Gallatin felds. In the interdisciplinary seminar “Teory Newington Cropsey Fellow for emerging artists for Gleaners,” he looked at the work of the late and scholars, which enabled him to participate in German cultural critic and philosopher Walter seminars, study trips, and public forums where he Benjamin and examined the relationship among presented his own work. Zach also received two aesthetics, politics, and technology in 19th and Dean’s Awards for Summer Research, the frst of 20th century Europe. In that course, Zach frst which took him to Cuba to study and research become attuned to what would later form the the work of the late Cuban painter Pedro Álvarez, basis of his dominant interest: the way that and the second of which enabled him to research diferent photographic technologies, since the contemporary approaches to pedagogy and medium’s inception, have yielded images with philosophies of education in museums. During distinctive political uses and efects. his senior year, Zach represented Gallatin as an

22 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES ambassador for the , NYU’s fne art Art in Spain from El Greco to Goya museum, developing programming that brought Barcelona: Images of a Modern Mediterranean Metropolis Elementary French Level I NYU students into the celebrated gallery space. Elementary French Level II German Literature and Philosophy An accomplished writer and critic, Zach Great Works in Philosophy authored an essay about millennials that was Intermediate French I published in Te New York Times when he was only Kant a junior. Te following year, a conversation with Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud Postmodern Art and Contemporary Art Austin Sarat, an authority on the death penalty South Asian Art I: Indus Valley to 1200 who delivered the 2014 Lecture, Special Topics in Modern Art: Neoclassicism to Romanticism led Zach to publish a piece on the topic—again in Texts and Ideas: Antiquity and the 19th Century the Times. Zach continues to write and publish in Te German Intellectual Tradition a number of forums, most notably writing book Te German Intellectual Tradition: Te Failure of reviews for Te Financial Times. Human Dignity Walter Benjamin: Teory for Gleaners Works of Art in Conversation After graduating from Gallatin, Zach moved Writing the Essay to in order to learn French, in anticipation of doing graduate work that looks at policing and GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY photography in 19th-century France. Beginning Contemporary Visual Culture and the Politics of Images in the fall of 2016, Zach will pursue graduate study Ethics for Dissenters Psychoanalysis and the Visual as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, Te Politics of Work where he plans to earn two master’s degrees, one Te Seen and the Unseen in Science in Criminology and Criminal Justice and a second in History of Art and Visual Culture. GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Art and Engagement: Te Responsibility of Intellect Under the Gaze of Others Hegel, Kojeve, and the End of History

ZACH’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES AND INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS: STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Te Psychic Life of Media COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE 20th Century European Capitalism Advanced Seminar: Approaching Art History Advanced Seminar: Te Caribbean—Crossroads of the World Art and Architecture in the Age of Giotto

23 SAFIA ELHILLO, BA ’13

CONCENTRATION: Poetry as a Tool in Therapy

COLLOQUIUM: Poetry and Trauma

Sudanese-American poet Safa grew up in “Oral History, Cultural Identity and the Arts,” a Washington, DC, and came to Gallatin with course for which Safa recorded oral histories a background in visual art and an interest in from the Sudanese diaspora. Te latter formed the poetry and trauma studies. While at Gallatin, she basis of her MFA thesis and, later, became her frst examined using poetry as a tool for therapy and poetry collection. found creative writing courses that spoke to her interest in writing about her experiences as a A founding member of Slam NYU and a member of the Sudanese diaspora. member of the winning national collegiate championship team in both 2012 and 2013, Safa Several Gallatin courses were formative to graduated from Gallatin and became a teaching her academic and creative trajectory: “Lyrics on artist in poetry at the International High School in Lockdown,” a course in which Gallatin students Queens and at Harlem Children’s Zone. Once she conduct writing workshops with incarcerated began to teach and to focus more on her writing youth at the Rikers Island Correctional Facility; and the development of her craft, she enrolled “Poets in Protest: Footsteps to Hip-Hop,” a course at Te New School, earning her MFA in Creative that examines the tradition of poetic protest; and Writing in 2015.

24 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES Safa’s poetry has garnered her a Pushcart Topics in Caribbean Literature: Te Making of a Caribbean Poem Prize nomination and, in 2015, she won the Trauma and Representation When Nightmare Is Real: Trauma in Children and Adolescents Brunel University African Poetry Prize, a prize aimed at developing, celebrating, and promoting GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY poetry from Africa. Her chapbook, Asmarani, is part Creative Arts in the Helping Professions of Akashic Books’s 2016 box set New-Generation Doing Tings With Words: Arts and Politics Across Cultures African Poets. Her frst full collection was selected Literacy in Action as the winner of the 2016 Sillerman First Book Lyrics on Lockdown Motown Matrix: Race, Gender, and Class Identity Prize for African Poets and will be published by the Narrating Gender in the Arab World University of Nebraska Press in 2017. Oral History, Cultural Identity, and the Arts Poets in Protest: Footsteps to Hip-Hop A Cave Canem fellow, Safa is also a poetry Ritual and Art editor at Kinfolks Quarterly: a journal of black expression. Telling Truths: Te Skill of Autobiography Now based in DC, she is currently a teaching artist Te Artifcial and the Natural Te Music of Poetry and the Poetry of Music with Split Tis Rock, a nonproft that teaches and Te Qur’an celebrates poetry that bears witness to injustice Te Rise and Fall of the Harlem Renaissance and provokes social change. For the organization, Truth or Fiction Safa is partnering with the DC youth slam poetry Writing New York City team to develop a poetry program for DC youth. INDEPENDENT STUDY Craft of Performance Poet

SILVER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK SAFIA’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare AND INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS:

TUTORIAL COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Editing the Literacy Review Advanced Poetry Workshop Lyrics on Lockdown II Central Problems in Philosophy Oral History Comparative Imperialisms: Anglophone Mid-East Literature Creative Writing: Introduction to Fiction and Poetry Elementary Arabic I “Everything that happens to you belongs to Elementary Arabic II you—and you can write about it.” Intermediate Arabic I – SAFIA ELHILLO Intermediate Arabic II Intermediate Poetry Workshop Introduction to Psychology Personality

25 ANNA WATERMAN, BA ’16

CONCENTRATION: The Intersection of Music and Literature

COLLOQUIUM: The Intersection of Music and Literature

Singer-songwriter Anna Waterman spent Her academic work has been enhanced by her freshman year in Paris through the NYU a range of travel experiences, including trips Liberal Studies Program. When she returned to to London and the Galapagos Islands through her native New York, she enrolled at Gallatin, Gallatin’s Dean’s Honor Society, an immersive where she found it was possible to examine the Spanish language course in Madrid, and a travel expressive possibilities of music and language course in Ireland: “James Joyce and Interdisciplinary and to discover how these function both Modernism.” independently and together. In her second year, Anna secured an internship Trough interdisciplinary seminars such as at Te Bowery Presents, a concert promotion and “Contexts of Musical Meaning” and “Te Music venue management organization that grew out of of Poetry and the Poetry of Music,” Anna began the well-known concert venue Te Bowery Ballroom, to consider what properties music and literature located on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Her time share and which properties are unique to each there gave her insight into the workings of the live discipline—as well as the artistic possibilities music industry and excellent professional contacts. of interweaving and cross-interpreting music, literature, and performance.

26 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES An internship at Jumpstart, a national GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY organization that trains college students and Contexts of Musical Meaning: What and How Does Music Mean? Feminist Teory: Fiction, Nature/Cultures, and Religion community volunteers to work with preschool James Joyce and Interdisciplinary Modernism children, has allowed Anna to connect with James Reese: Europe and American Music families in her Lower East Side neighborhood. Metaphor and Meaning As the team leader for her group, Anna has taken Music and Civic Culture: Ancient and Modern on a literacy-focused teaching role and gained Music and Science hands-on classroom experience. Proximity and Protest in the 18th-Century Letter and Its Afterlives Punk Aesthetics Reading, Performing, and Creating James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake Trough the development of her Science, Race, and Colonialism in Comparative Perspective concentration, Anna has come to ofer an Sissle Blake and the Minstrel Tradition academic analysis of the intersections Songwriting and departures of music and literature, an Sound Art understanding that has contributed to her Te Music of Poetry and the Poetry of Music Te Open Voice craft as a singer-songwriter. Her senior project, Writing About Popular Music “Te Musicality of Eliot and Baudelaire,” refects

her academic ambitions and her plan to NYU PARIS pursue a PhD in Comparative Literature in Cultural Foundations II French and American poetry. Intensive Intermediate French Social Foundations II Writing II

STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, ANNA’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS: Pop/Jazz Piano: Private Lessons for Non-Majors

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS French Conversation and Composition Advanced Musicianship: Classic Tracks of the 1960s and 1970s Intensive Elementary Spanish Introduction to Performance Studies Introduction to Russian Literature I Te Unquiet Dead Workshop in French Language and Culture “Gallatin is this amazing place where you FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE don’t have to choose one program of study Cultural Foundations I over another.” Social Foundations I – ANNA WATERMAN Writing I

27 MARCUS JONES, BA ’15

CONCENTRATION: TV and Film Development

COLLOQUIUM: Developing Comedy

With a longstanding interest in the entertainment Before a semester abroad at NYU Prague industry and flmmaking, Germantown, Maryland, in the spring of his sophomore year, Marcus native Marcus made the most of his time at subscribed to New York magazine to keep up Gallatin. Gallatin courses like “Artists’ Lives, Artists’ with the city. He heard about an internship at Work” and “Revisioning the Classics,” along with the magazine and landed the spot. As an intern flmmaking courses at NYU Tisch, including “Sight for Te Cut and Vulture, two New York magazine and Sound” and “Producing for Film,” provided a blogs, Marcus pitched stories and gained an grounding for his prospective career as a flm and understanding of how the digital and print sides TV producer. enhance each other. He also produced videos and covered New York Fashion Week for the magazine. Marcus made the most of his time in After the internship ended, he was able to parlay New York, enhancing his academic work with his experience into ongoing freelance work. several media internships, including at BuzzFeed, GQ, New York magazine, Optomen Productions, and MTV2.

28 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES From his sophomore through his senior year, INDEPENDENT STUDY Marcus welcomed new students to Gallatin during Stand-Up Act the School’s Welcome Week as an Orientation NYU PRAGUE Leader, an experience he remembers as being Central European Film central to his time at Gallatin. He spoke from Czech Art and Architecture experience to frst-year students about where and Global Orientations: Te Czech Republic in a Global Context how to fnd internships. Introduction to Marketing Methods and Practice: Reporting in the Arts Currently, he is seeking a career in flm or STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS TV development, be it at an agency, management Business of Producing company, network, or a Entertainment and Media Industries Principles of production company. Financial Accounting Executive Practitioner Seminar: Te Dynamics of the Fashion Industry Launch!: Business Start-up Seminar

MARCUS’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES Managing Creative Content Development AND INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS: Movie Marketing

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS Classical Mythology Media Moguls in the 20th Century Economic Principles I Producing Essentials Economic Principles II Producing for Film Introduction to Web Design and Computer Principles Sight and Sound: Filmmaking Renaissance Art TV Nation: Inside and Out of the Box

GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY Artists’ Lives, Artists’ Work “I like the freedom I had to get into all the Classic Texts and Contemporary Life classes that I wanted, but they usually ended up Creating a Magazine: A Multimedia Approach being Gallatin classes, because they were the Fear and Loathing: Documentary and Subjectivity most interesting.” Good Design: Scale – MARCUS JONES Revisioning the Classics Te 20th Century: Manifesto and the Aesthetics of Text Writing for Late-Night Television: Monologue, Jokes, Bits, and Sketches

29 CARLY KRAKOW, BA ’16

CONCENTRATION: Human Rights and Environmental Policy

COLLOQUIUM: International Human Rights Law and Environmental Policy (regional focus on the Middle East)

Carly’s focus on the intersection of human rights Her time in Geneva included research at institutions and environmental issues led her to pursue an such as the UN Refugee Agency and the World interdisciplinary education at Gallatin. Building Health Organization. on her passion for comparative literature as a means of analyzing complex issues from a variety A 2014 Gallatin Dean’s Award for Summer of perspectives, Carly incorporated the study of Research supported her study of water access and ethics, Middle Eastern studies, international water quality in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Carly law, and environmental studies into her continued her work on the human right to water concentration. Much of her research has focused as a 2015 Gallatin Global Fellow in Human Rights, on the human right to water in the context of conducting feldwork in Palestine, Israel, and Jordan. humanitarian law and environmental law. She is a three-time recipient of grants Trough the Wagner Graduate School of from the Horn Family Environmental Studies Public Service summer institute, “International Resource Fund, which have supported research Health Policy and Prospects,” Carly expanded and international speaking engagements on her knowledge of international diplomacy and water rights. Carly has presented at conferences, humanitarian issues in Geneva, Switzerland. including one hosted by the School of Oriental

30 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES and African Studies in London, on the history History of Ecology and Environmentalism and future of the Gaza Strip. A Gallatin Jewish Living Environment Topics in Modern Arab Cultures: Landmarks of Modern Studies Grant has supported a project she and Contemporary Arabic Literature started through feld work in Te Hague, in

which she investigates the relationship between GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY international law and the historical treatment of Arab Cinema(s) minority groups such as Arab Jews. Biology and Society Evil Te Qur’an From her sophomore to her senior year, History of Environmental Sciences Before Darwin she worked on Gallatin’s Literacy Review, a public Philosophy of Religion service–driven publication that features writing Te Arabian Nights by students in literacy programs throughout Te Modern Arabic Novel New York City. She helped develop the journal’s Te Poetics and Politics of Mourning inaugural social justice section and served as Te Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives editor-in-chief during her senior year. Te Sociology of Religion: Islam and the Modern World War, Law, and Memory As a research scholar for Global Design NYU, Carly was an organizer of the Cities and GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Citizenship Conference, which focused on the role Arab Jews and the Writing of Memory of urban citizenry in the face of global warming. Topics in the Sociology of the Modern Middle East: Transnationalism and the Middle East Her article about the conference was published in the Goethe-Institut’s Weltstadt newspaper in both INDEPENDENT STUDY English and German, and she was an editor for the Editor-in-Chief: Literacy Review book Global Design. Environmental Justice Environmental Policy In fall 2016, Carly will head to the UK to pursue Human Rights and the Environment – Palestine/Israel International Water Law a graduate degree in International Relations and Water Rights: Palestine Politics at the University of Cambridge.

INTERNSHIP Human Rights Watch

CARLY’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES TUTORIAL AND INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS: Editing the Literacy Review

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE WAGNER SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE Ethics and the Environment Wagner in Geneva, Switzerland: International Health Policy Ethics and Animals and Prospects

31 SAMUEL ROUNDS, BA ’12

CONCENTRATION: The Social Consequences of New Media

COLLOQUIUM: The Evolution of Privacy From the Ancient to the Digital

Samuel began Gallatin with an interest in ofered an opportunity to add both global and sociology and urban studies, but his First-Year historical perspectives. His internships in online Writing Seminar, “Visual Media and Contemporary advertising and fnance at Te FADER, Care.com, Literature,” inspired him to study media. By and Triton Research led to full-time employment combining the works of media theorists with after graduation. Samuel also looked at the philosophical readings, the course compelled business side of emerging technologies, exploring students to explore the role of visual media in our monetization strategies in the digital age, as well culture, literature, and individual lives. as the opportunities aforded by big data as a tool for brands and advertisers to interface more While at Gallatin, Samuel explored the efectively with the public. efects that our new digital existence is having on our interactions with others; how our lives are Samuel currently works for Triton Research, changing with new technologies; and, specifcally, a start-up that provides fnancial and operational how technologies like the Internet are changing intelligence for large institutional investors and how we value the socializing forces and relations corporate acquirers. in everyday life. A semester at NYU Prague

32 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES SAMUEL’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, AND INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS: AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Advertising and Marketing COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Architecture as Media Cities in Global Context Interviewing Strategies Computers in Principle and Practice Introduction to Digital Media Creative Writing: Introduction to Fiction and Poetry Introduction to Media Studies Introduction to Psychology Introduction to Photography II Topics: Hausa Media and Identity Piano for Non-Majors GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY Public Speaking Celebrity Culture Recording Technology for Non-Majors Digital Art and New Media Visual Culture/Science and Technology Finance for Social Teorists Food TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS Te Art and Craft of Poetry Introduction to Digital Tools Te Communication Revolution Introduction to Game Design Te Harlem Renaissance Te New American Society Travel Fictions Visual Media and Contemporary Literature

INTERNSHIPS Care.com Goodman Media International PulsePoint Te FADER Triton Research

NYU PRAGUE Advertising and Society Civil Resistance in Central and Eastern Europe History of Czech Architecture Management and Organizational Analysis

33 MAGGIE CARTER, BA ’13

CONCENTRATION: Latin American Legacies of Agency and Oppression

MINOR: Anthropology

COLLOQUIUM: The Invention of a Continent: Conquest, Development, and Identity Formation in Latin America

Troughout her time at Gallatin, Maggie A recipient of a Gallatin Global Human Rights examined the question of how countries in Fellowship, Maggie spent a summer in Salvador, Latin America can develop in ways that enable Brazil, working for a small nonproft and conducting social justice. She studied instances of agency research on community policing initiatives and among the disenfranchised, particularly civic participation. She was awarded honors for women, indigenous groups, and the poor. Tese her Gallatin Senior Project, “Policing Democracy: have ranged from revolutionary movements Pathways to Citizenship in Brazil.” to civil disobedience to individual acts that quietly challenge the system of power. She From 2011–2013, Maggie was the editor- studied international development in an efort in-chief of Te Gallatin Journal of Global Afairs, an to understand the trajectory of development interdisciplinary publication of student-produced in Latin America from colonialism to the articles, essays, poems, and photographs that present. What she found is a long pattern of respond to critical international issues. She also dependency that has relegated countries either serves as the managing director of Taxi to Tomorrow to submission or imitation. (which she co-founded with a fellow Gallatin

34 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES alumna, Sarah Zapiler, BA ’11), a language- Literary and Cultural Teory: An Interdisciplinary Introduction based mutual mentorship program that pairs Politics, Writing, and the Nobel Prize in Latin America Race and Religion in African American Culture immigrant and refugee high school students Renaissance and Renewal in the 9th Century learning English with college students studying Revolution foreign languages. Te Faith Between Us Te Writer in International Politics Maggie is pursuing a master’s degree Women’s Text(tiles) in Latin American Studies at the NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, INDEPENDENT STUDY Brazil: Roots of Inequality funded by the Foreign Language and Area

Studies Fellowship. TUTORIAL La France à New York

WAGNER SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE MAGGIE’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES AND Institutions, Governance, and International Development INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS: Introduction to Public Policy Managing Public Service Organizations

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality Archaeology: Early Societies and Culture Economic Principles I Ethnography and Ethnohistory of the Andes French French Conversation and Composition Gender and Sexuality in Latin America Human Society and Culture Introduction to Sociology Portuguese Slavery in Anthropological Perspective Maggie with members of the nonprofit she interned for as a Gallatin Human Rights Fellow in Salvador, Brazil

GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY (Re)Imagining Latin America Between Rights and Justice in Latin America Consuming the Caribbean Globalization Hemispheric Imaginings History of Environmental Sciences Before Darwin

35 MICHAEL SANDMEL, BA ’12

CONCENTRATION: Ecology and Economics

COLLOQUIUM: The Search for Lasting Prosperity: Reconciling Ecological and Economic Thought

Michael entered Gallatin wanting to do into action. Trough this job, he founded and something meaningful about climate change, managed the NYU Bike Share program—three and he understood that would require years before the launch of NYC’S CitiBike. tackling the issue from multiple perspectives. Trough courses in economics, geography, and In his junior year, Michael was awarded environmental studies, he recognized the the national Morris K. Udall Scholarship, importance of understanding a broad range of given to students pursuing careers related to sociological, ecological, and economic models, environmental policy. His senior project consisted as well as the assumptions and historical biases of ethnographic research on the role of climate behind them, and the possibilities for integrating and environmental discourse with the Occupy them into a larger systemic analysis. Wall Street movement in New York City.

His on-campus job at NYU’s Ofce of After graduating, Michael traveled to Brazil Sustainability dovetailed with his studies, and Qatar to attend United Nations summits on allowing him to put socio-environmental theory sustainable development and climate change

36 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES as a delegate with SustainUS, a youth-led NGO. INDEPENDENT STUDY He currently works as a manager for the New Biofuels Community Design/Build Economics Coalition, a Boston-based nonproft Solar Design working to advance democracy, decentralization, Yestermorrow Design/Build School and sustainability in economic life. NYU EXCHANGE WITH STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY Economy 1500–2000 Historical Perspectives on Global Political MICHAEL’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES AND Swedish Model Macroeconomics INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS: Welfare States in a Changing Europe

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE American Capitalism in Teory and Practice Calculus I Cities in Global Context Economic Principles I Economic Principles II Environment and Society Environmental Systems Science Evolution of the Earth Great Works in Philosophy History of Economic Tought Intermediate Macroeconomics Introduction to Metropolitan Studies New York City: A Social History Political Philosophy Topics in Environmental Studies: Urban Political Ecology Topics in Environmental Studies: Economics and Environment

GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY American Capitalism in the 20th Century Literary and Cultural Teory Science and Society Te (Post) Colonial Arabic Novel Te Political Economy of Development Writing 20th Century Music and Culture Writing the Environment

37 KOFI OPAM, BA ’13

CONCENTRATION: Nonfction Media and Storytelling

COLLOQUIUM: Slumming! Race, Gender, and Genre Play

Kof grew up wanting to be a naturalist but, after and activism at the Michael Stevenson Gallery in taking a high school flm class, discovered it might Cape Town. Upon returning from South Africa, Kof be possible to combine interests in wildlife biology took an independent study in screenwriting and and flmmaking along with writing and languages. interned at the Independent Film Channel.

A course in sociology while at Gallatin An overarching concept in Kof’s concentration broadened the concentration to encompass was the idea and practice of nonfction, looking environmental sociology, or the ways human at the ways reality is refracted through media, societies and cultures can afect wildlife and culture, and identity. the environment. After graduation, Kof worked in programming While studying abroad at NYU’s site in and curating with the Nantucket Film Festival and Ghana, Kof made a documentary flm about then began work with Martin Scorsese’s production the challenges facing the LGBTQ community in company. Kof is a product lead for the eyeware Accra, the capital city. A summer in South Africa company Warby Parker and is the social media as the recipient of a Gallatin Dean’s Award for coordinator for the site Afropedia. Summer Research allowed Kof to study queer art

38 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES KOFI’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, AND INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS: AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT American Sign Language COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Darwin and the Origin of the Species TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS Environmental Systems Science Fundamentals of Filmmaking: Digital Workshop Field Laboratory in Ecology Intermediate Digital Filmmaking French Conversation and Composition Master Class in Documentary: Directors Series Introduction to Sociology Preparing the Screenplay Queer Culture Trough the Documentary Lens: Civil Rights Te Constitution and People of Color Trough the Documentary Lens: Human Rights Topics: Queer Histories

GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY A Sense of Place Barbarians: Ancient Concepts of the Outsider Dangerous and Intermingled II: Subaltern New York Food Culture and Writing Poets in Protest: Footsteps to Hip-Hop Sex and the State Te Social Construction of Reality Writing 20th Century Music Writing Your Ancestry

INDEPENDENT STUDY Writing the Screenplay

INTERNSHIP Te Independent Film Channel

NYU ACCRA African Popular Music Creative Writing Documenting the African City Health and Society Te Art of Travel

39 YASMIN DAGUILH, BA ’14

CONCENTRATION: The Social Visibility of Fashion

COLLOQUIUM: Clothing Your Identity: The Social Visibility of Fashion

Yasmin graduated from an arts high school and Le Point G Gallery, a student-run gallery dedicated knew that she would work in a creative industry. to exposing new young talent. When she started at Gallatin, she took courses centered on fashion, as well as courses in politics On campus, Yasmin interacted with incoming and ideology. In her sophomore year, she realized Gallatin students as well as prospective students that her interest was in understanding the ways as both an Orientation Leader and an Admissions in which clothes afect cultural relationships. Te Ambassador. She was active with the NYU Program inspiration for this discovery was the course “Girls Board, bringing performers such as Dr. Dog, Twin in the ’60s: Getting Cofee and Getting Political,” Shadow, and Lil B to NYU. She volunteered for in which she researched the political movements Project Outreach and spent time in New Orleans of the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s in relation to fashion and Ghana on rebuilding projects. magazine development at the time. Yasmin has worked on various projects, While studying at NYU’s programs in London including the website Refnery29. She interned at and Paris, she gained a global perspective on the NMRKT, a start-up e-commerce company that has role of fashion as a social system. While abroad, partnered with AOL’s StyleList, and then became she participated in a group photography show at a media and marketing assistant there. Another

40 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES internship expanded into a freelance position as NYU LONDON a production assistant for the website Milk Made Architecture in London: Field Study Contemporary Art in Britain during Fashion Week. Immigration Issues in Contemporary British Politics and Culture Since graduating from Gallatin, Yasmin has Journalism and Society: Blogging to Bullets, Changes continued her work in fashion. From a role as a and Challenges Facing Media studio manager with noted photographer Jason Kibbler to a variety of production work with NYU PARIS Advanced French Conversation brands such as eBay, Ray Ban, and Sonos, her Between Fiction and Reality: New York and Paris interests continue to lie in the creative feld. She Te Art of Travel currently works as a Creative Services Producer at Visual Art Workshop Alice + Olivia, where she is responsible for casting Workshop in French Language and Culture and helping direct each season’s fashion week Writing Workshop: Writing Paris presentation, look book, and campaign. STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Art: Practice and Ideas Gender and Communication YASMIN’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES Introduction to Media Studies AND INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS: Media and Identity Modern Art and Contemporary Culture COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Public Relations: Principles and Practices Couture Culture: Politics of Fashion Girls in the ’60s: Getting Cofee and Getting Political TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS Introduction to Web Design and Computer Principles Photography II for Non-Majors Te Making of Iconic Images WAGNER SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY Vital Voices: Women Changing the World Around the World Character Creating a Magazine: From Inspiration to Prototype Literary and Cultural Teory Myths and Fables Practicum in Fashion Business Race, Ethnicity, and Popular Media Te New American Society Tinking about Seeing

INTERNSHIP NMRKT Yasmin researching and designing in her studio

41 LAURA SEACH, BA ’13

CONCENTRATION: Social/Environmental Architecture and Design

COLLOQUIUM: Architecture, Design, and Ecology

Growing up in south Florida, Laura was not with wood or steel, but with cells. Te idea interested in the tensions between the built of active architecture inspired Laura to pursue and natural environments. At an early age, an education that would combine the study and scuba diving and ocean conservancy inspired practice of environment and design. her and made her aware of the challenges facing the area’s coral reefs and changing Laura worked as the curatorial assistant shorelines. When Laura moved to New York to for GLOBAL Design NYU, a design exhibition attend Gallatin, she was both discouraged and and symposium on the changing ecological and inspired by the city’s infrastructural challenges architectural landscape, and completed a study and environmental potential. abroad in Berlin.

An illuminating TED talk by Rachel At Gallatin, Laura studied design theory Armstrong—architect, doctor, novelist, and and its impact on man’s relationship with the polymath—transformed Laura’s academic environment and combined research, planning, path at NYU. Armstrong presented a design, actualization, and management with the multidisciplinary work on “living architecture,” ultimate goal being the physical manifestation discussing her project to save a sinking Venice of environmental urban design ideas.

42 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES Since graduating from Gallatin, Laura has INDEPENDENT STUDY worked with New York-based architect Katie Design/Build: NYC Code/Zoning Winter on school renovations in underserved TUTORIAL communities. She is the creative director of the Design/Build: Productive Roof interactive technology design frm IB5k. On FiddleWiDth Magazine, Production and Design the weekends, she is the site manager for the Brooklyn-based farming collective Feedback Farms. NYU BERLIN In partnership with NYC nonproft the Doe Fund, Environment German this project integrates farming and food justice Projects in Digital Art: Art of Noise: Sound, Installation education with the Doe Fund’s paid occupational Projects in Drawing training programs. Projects in Studio Art: Autobiography Berlin

STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT LAURA’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES Advanced College Essay: Education and the Professions AND INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS: Introduction to Human Communication and Culture Introduction to Media Studies COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Introduction to Photography II Economic Principles II French TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS German Introduction to Computational Media History of Western Art II Introduction to Comparative Literature: Scoring Introduction to Computers and Programming Language and Reality in Modern Science and Literature Literature: Te Drug Culture Shaping the Urban Environment Writing the Essay

GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY Architecture and Urban Design Lab I Biology and Society Good Design: Habitation History of Environmental Sciences Before Darwin Mapping as a Spatial, Political, and Environmental Practice Nature, Resources, and the Human Condition Science and Culture Tink Big: Global Issues and Ecological Solutions

43 ELIZABETH POLLACK, BA ’14

CONCENTRATION: Theatre Studies and the Historicization of Dramatic Literature

MINOR: Dramatic Literature, Theatre, History, and the Cinema

COLLOQUIUM: Theatre Studies and the Historicization of Dramatic Literature

As a freshman, Beth thought she would study Gallatin Teatre Troupe, appearing in their 2011 creative writing, theater, music, and geometry. Brandspankin’ New Works Festival. In addition, While she continues to be interested in all of Beth traveled to Abu Dhabi with Gallatin to attend these disciplines, her approach to learning the inaugural Global Shakespeare Conference in 2013, became more interdisciplinary. Te core of her where she performed, led workshops, and attended program was the study of character, particularly master classes. Working closely with Gallatin’s in terms of historical and dramatic contexts. Beth professional theater director, Kristin Horton, and studied historical narratives, theater, musical Gallatin’s professional theater-in-residence, Fiasco theater, and theater production, both inside and Teater, Beth had opportunities to study acting and outside of the classroom. musical performance at Gallatin and NYU Tisch.

Beth appeared in the Gallatin mainstage Her senior project, “Scapegrace Prince: A Study productions of 1001, a modern adaptation of 1001 of Prince Hal,” was an investigation into how a Nights, Measure for Measure, and Hamlet. She also historical fgure becomes a fctional character. In participated in several staged readings at Gallatin, it, Beth looked at Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 and including the lead role in Antigonick, with Judith focused on one person’s fxation on the character Butler and Anne Carson. She worked with the of Prince Hal.

44 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES Beth is a founding member of the Mad Revisioning the Classics and Merry Teatre Company, where she has Shakespeare and the London Teatre Shakespeare’s Mediterranean performed, directed, and served as teaching Something to Sing About: Acting in Musical Teatre artist. Te company was initially formed by Te Ancient Teatre and Its Infuences the cast of Gallatin’s all-female production of Te Arabian Nights Measure for Measure. Mad and Merry seeks to Te Odyssey: Estrangement and Homecoming empower underrepresented voices through Utopia: Logic and Ethics fresh perspectives on traditional stories and Visions of Greatness: Alexander and His Legacy Witch, Heroine, Saint: Joan of Arc and Her World concentrates on educational outreach. Writing on the Wild Side

Since graduating from Gallatin, Beth STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, has worked with the Drama School at Seattle AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Children’s Teatre, taught theatre at area schools, Acting for Stage and Screen and appeared onstage around the Seattle area. Basic Musicianship I Introduction to Performance Studies Te American Musical

TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS BETH’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES Voice and Performance AND INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS:

TUTORIAL COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Teories of Mythology Acting Medieval Literature Ancient Near Eastern Mythology Civil Liberties Creative Writing: Introduction to Fiction and Poetry Modern American Drama Modern Drama: Confronting the Audience Origins of Astronomy Shakespeare I Socialist Teory

GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY Adaptation and Performance Advanced Shakespeare Scene Study: Hamlet Advanced Shakespeare Scene Study: Roman Tragedies Antigone(s): Ancient Greece/Performance Now Awareness Techniques for Performers From Medieval Manuscripts to Graphic Novels Holy Grails

45 CHARLES GELMAN, BA ’09

CONCENTRATION: Philosophy and Political/Literary Theory in Late Modernity

COLLOQUIUM: Perspectives on 20th Century Literary and Political Theory

At Gallatin, Charles developed a passion for the A semester abroad in Prague provided Charles study of literature, philosophy, and political with the opportunity to pursue an internship at theory. Tese interests formed the basis of his Transitions Online, a journal covering politics in post- concentration, which centered on political and communist Central and Eastern Europe, as well as cultural theory in the context of 20th century Russia and Central Asia. history. Its major point of reference was Central and Western Europe during the turbulent series Charles completed a semester abroad in Paris, of political and cultural transitions that began where he took part in Northwestern University’s Paris after World War I and culminated in the wave Program in Critical Teory. He is a doctoral candidate of democratization that took place in 1989. Te in the Department of Comparative Literature at NYU. relationship between structure and history and He is working on his dissertation, a study of the the role of poetics in modern political thought German-Jewish philosopher and literary critic Walter were prominent questions in his concentration. Benjamin’s writings on the 19th century French poet In addition, Charles studied philosophy, Charles Baudelaire. In the spring of 2016, thanks to psychoanalysis, and literary texts. a NYU Global Research Initiative Fellowship, Charles traveled to Paris.

46 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES CHARLES’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES NYU PRAGUE AND INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS: German Kafa and His Contexts COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Mass Value Orientations and Political Change in Western British Literature I and Eastern Europe Comparative Literature Seminar: Modernity Modern Dissent in Central Europe: Intellect in Central Europe Europe Since 1945 German TUTORIAL German: Conversation/Composition Contemporary Political Tought History of Ancient Philosophy Introduction to Psychology Introduction to Russian Literature Readings in Chinese Philosophy and Culture Seminar: Philosophy, Memory, and Reconstruction Te Holocaust: Te Tird Reich and the Jews Te Media in America Te Nature of Values Western Europe Zionism and the State of Israel

GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY Aesthetics on Trial American Politics After 9/11: Empire/Race/Democracy Imagining Cities Literary and Cultural Teory Migration and American Culture Narrative Investigations II Perversion Primary Text: Te Hebrew Bible and Politics Primary Texts: Machiavelli’s Prince Primary Texts: Marx Primary Texts: Plato’s Republic Te Seen and the Unseen in Science

INDEPENDENT STUDY Wittgenstein and Politics

47 JONATHAN CHAN, BA ’12

CONCENTRATION: Philosophy and Complexity Theory

COLLOQUIUM: Complex Systems Analysis

A quintessential Gallatin student, Jon has Outside of his studies, Jon was involved in interests both in and outside the classroom that an array of activities. As president of the Gallatin span a variety of areas. He quickly discovered Business Club (GBC), he saw the organization’s that the underlying thread connecting all of his membership grow from 80 students to over 500 interests is the exploration of complex systems— in just four months. In connection with the GBC, organizations that are essentially decentralized he also started the Albert Gallatin Founder’s but coalesce to exhibit emergent behavior. Over Fund, NYU’s frst student-run entrepreneurship the course of his studies at Gallatin, Jon tackled competition. His other involvements included questions about how natural selection is possible, serving on the board of the NYU Mock Trial team what drives life-like behavior of artifcial systems as it was a national champion in 2010, serving on in computer science, and why market economies the board of the largest student technology start- function in predictable ways. As a result, he delved up group, Tech@NYU, and representing NYU as an deeply into philosophy of science, computer Admissions Ambassador for four years. By the end science, economics, and literature to seek out how of his time at Gallatin, Jon was recognized as one vastly complex systems made up of many distinct of the frst university leadership honors students parts can exhibit emergent behavior as a whole. in 2011, as a university nominee for the Rhodes

48 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES Scholarship in 2012, and as a recipient of the GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY Gallatin Special Service Award. Beyond the Invisible Hand: Te History of Economic Tought Finance for Social Teorist Labor and the Global Market After graduation, Jon worked as a business Science and Culture technology analyst at Deloitte Digital. In 2013, Te City and the Grassroots he created Bento, an open-source website that Utopias and Dystopias provides resources to learn how to code. He Writing currently works as a software developer at Stack Overfow, a collaboratively edited question-and- INDEPENDENT STUDY Writing the Epic Novel answer site for programmers.

STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Management and Organizational Analysis Patterns of Entrepreneurship JON’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES Principles of Financial Accounting AND INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS: TUTORIAL COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE James Joyce’s Ulysses 20th Century Concepts of Space American Constitution Economic Principles I Economic Principles II Ethics History of Modern Philosophy iPhone Programming Kant Logic Metaphysics Philosophy of Biology Philosophy of Language Recent Continental Philosophers Te Universe: Its Nature and History Topics in History of Philosophy Topics in Language and Mind University Leadership Honor Course

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